Verified Purchase. In Cereus Blooms at Night, Shani Mootoo brings to life the fictional Caribbean island of Lantanacamara. A complex, nonlinear plot weaves together various threads in the lives of characters from several generations. Mootoo explores themes of gender and identity and sexual orientation while also delving into the effects of trauma. The book deals with some dark subjects-- incest, abuse, rape-- /5(64). Cereus blooms at night by Mootoo, Shani. Publication date Publisher Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; china Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate Boxid IAUser Interaction Count: K. · Cereus Blooms At Night is a story of the visceral experience (and present condition) of Mala Ramchandin. The setting is a fictional island called Paradise located somewhere in the Caribbean. As Nurse Tyler cares for Mala Ramchandin, her condition is viewed as insanity as she merely interacts with insects and audibly speaks to herself.4/5().
in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night John Corr Relation contaminates, sweetens, as a principle, or as flower dust. Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation Cereus Blooms at Night is set in a Caribbean paradise that is lush and beautiful, but that is also, as a result of colonial corruption, deeply rotten. Cereus Blooms at Night Shani Mootoo, Author Grove/Atlantic $23 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. HE DROWN SHE IN THE SEA; Buy this book. Shani Mootoo was born in Ireland and grew up in Trinidad. She has lived in Canada since the early s. Her acclaimed first novel, Cereus Blooms at Night.
In Cereus Blooms at Night, Mootoo gives a more reflective examination of hybridity and sexual minority identities. Out on Main Street A collection of short stories that was released to much acclaim in , the stories pivot around the identities of diasporic South Asian women. In Cereus Blooms at Night, Shani Mootoo brings to life the fictional Caribbean island of Lantanacamara. A complex, nonlinear plot weaves together various threads in the lives of characters from several generations. Mootoo explores themes of gender and identity and sexual orientation while also delving into the effects of trauma. Cereus Blooms at Night was written by Trinidadian filmmaker/artist/writer Shani Mootoo. The book tells the story of an older lady named Mala Ramchandin through the eyes -- and mouth -- of a lively and energetic nurse named Tyler.
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